Migration, the customs union & a £40bn black hole?
There are reports that the OBR will downgrade Britain’s productivity growth forecasts, increasing the size of the black hole facing the Chancellor at the end of the month. This continues the spate of ...
28 Okt 202513min
Is the Home Office fit for purpose?
With the news that the Home Office has spent billions of taxpayers' money on asylum hotels – and following the accidental release of the Epping sex offender – Tim Shipman and James Heale discuss this ...
27 Okt 202514min
Has Starmer misled parliament? Plus Lucy Powell wins
We thought when we organised this podcast that there would just be the newly announced deputy Labour leader to discuss – Lucy Powell beat Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson by 87,407 votes to 73,5...
25 Okt 202513min
Caerphilly by-election: 'a tale of two faces'
On the face of it, the Caerphilly by-election result is a disaster, a drubbing and a humiliation for Keir Starmer’s Labour party. A once secure bastion of the Welsh Labour heartlands fell without a sq...
24 Okt 202516min
What’s inside Farage’s brain?
With every new poll predicting a Reform win at the next general election, the party continues its preparation for government. James Heale joins Oscar Edmondson and Tim Shipman to talk about his articl...
23 Okt 202516min
Grooming gangs: Kemi accuses Labour of a 'cover up'
We’ve just had PMQs, which have become much more interesting now that Kemi Badenoch has got her act together. She led on the Grooming Gangs Inquiry after a fourth survivor quit the inquiry over fears ...
22 Okt 202514min
Britain's doom loop continues
Rachel Reeves is hosting an investment summit in Birmingham, trying to turn the narrative away from Britain's economic 'doom loop' ahead of next month's budget. But the harbinger of bad economic news ...
21 Okt 202510min
Can Reform run a council?
There have been lots of movements in foreign affairs over the weekend, including a potential collapse of the Gaza peace deal, a Trump–Putin bilateral and new revelations about the China spy case. But ...
20 Okt 202510min
